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Two recent film-video graduates appreciate the opportunity post-graduate internships offer, with one starting her career path on the East Coast and another getting a similar start toward his dreams on the West Coast.

Starting this summer, Penn State is piloting a program designed to provide freshmen at seven campuses the opportunity to earn scholarships while taking classes, working and developing a support network. Called “Pathway to Success: Summer Start Program” or PaSSS, the program is aimed at providing financial and educational support to students, while at the same time helping them graduate on time.

Charles Cantalupo, Distinguished Professor of English, comparative literature and African studies, spent years traveling to and researching the cities where one of America’s all-time greatest writers, Edgar Allan Poe, lived throughout his life. On June 4, he performed for the first time the entire sequence of his poems on where Poe lived, called “Poe in Place.”

Administrators from Penn State University and Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) signed an articulation agreement to facilitate the transfer of LCCC students into 12 baccalaureate degree programs at 14 Penn State campuses, including Penn State Lehigh Valley, Penn State Hazleton, Penn State Schuylkill, Penn State Wilkes-Barre and Penn State Worthington Scranton.

Charles Cantalupo, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African Studies, is currently featured on the homepage of Warscapes, an independent online magazine that focuses on current world conflicts.

Five longtime Penn State champions and benefactors will be recognized by the Penn State Alumni Association and named honorary alumni at an event in early June at The Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.

This spring Penn State awarded 13,381 diplomas to students University-wide who are completing 433 associate, 10,916 baccalaureate, 1,437 master’s, 202 law, 262 doctoral and 131 medical degrees, bringing the University’s number of graduates to an estimated total of more than 760,238.

Almost 50 Penn State Schuylkill students participated in the annual Walk-a-Mile in her Shoes event, held in Pottsville, on April 23, where participants donned high heel shoes and walked to raise awareness about sexual violence in the community.

Penn State Schuylkill announced that Pennsylvania Congressman Matt Cartwright (District 17) will visit campus April 27 along with Lithuanian Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis just prior to his return to Lithuania.

Penn State Schuylkill and the campus EPICS Committee (Envision, Plan, Implement, Change, Sustain), have several free events planned in celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and invite the campus and local community to attend.

For the past decade, Helen Hendy, professor of psychology at Penn State Schuylkill; Dr. Keith Williams, feeding director, Penn State Hershey Medical Center; and Thomas Camise, retired principal of Schuylkill Haven Area Elementary Center; published a number of research articles that document the effectiveness of the Kid’s Choice Program (KCP).